Asperger's Are Us Page #4

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- Ethan likes trains, too.

You worried about the noise?

- Trains might be loud.

- You wanna look

at the schedule?

- Next train to Rockport

in four minutes.

- You like the schedules?

You wanna look at it?

You can.

You can look at

it if you want to.

I've spent a lot of my time

numbing myself,

because of the hypersensitivity.

I have my sunglasses

and my mp3 player,

and I'm playing songs

that I already know,

and it's cutting

off my sensitivity,

like it's dulling my

senses in general.

And this means I can put

up with stuff a lot more.

We're hypersensitive

'cause something's irritating

us from the inside,

and our environment can

exacerbate or

inhibit this process,

but it's not the

underlying cause.

Something else is

going on internally.

And it comes out in those

particular bad situations.

This is my diagnosis.

The actual first time

I ever got diagnosed

on the autism spectrum.

You have this,

here's the good sides of it,

good luck!

And I skipped home,

'cause I felt freer

than I ever had,

and I was just-

it explained everything

that had ever happened to me

that didn't make sense.

20 years.

Every human being

has stuff that bothers

us more than others.

Aspies, there's certain

things that bother us

in a way that only like

true, physical trauma

would bother a neurotypical.

You know, the trauma of like

getting mugged,

many Aspies are

feeling every week.

- Wow, that sounds menacing!

I'm so sorry to hear that.

- That's not even

the half of it!

It's like, when the custom

of a woman is upon me,

I'm not even in control.

She's in control.

- All right, so we're making

a pretend tampon commercial,

and instead of saying period,

we're saying

"custom of a woman,"

which is how they said it

in the King James edition

of the Old Testament.

- Is this your sister's dress?

- No.

- Where did you...

- We bought it for,

for superhero palace.

We've known each other since

junior year of high school.

She was a senior.

And I was

I was the cute junior girl.

- I was the jock senior.

- She was the jock senior.

And when I saw her,

my ass tingled.

So silly.

- I'll take these out.

I need some water first.

I think we have it.

- Okay,

I'm taking this off.

- I mean honestly, if

you think about it,

it might not even

be absurd enough.

There've been times when

when I felt like I

really wanted to work on

something different creatively.

Meaghan and I brainstormed ideas

for our love troupe,

so I'm really excited

about the hiatus.

Because we've been

doing Asperger's Are Us

for three years now.

I understand the other guys are

sick of doing a sketch show.

We've been doing it for

three years, almost.

And they have the

mindset that, you know,

we'll be doing

mostly old material.

You can come sit over here.

And,

anyways, so I was skeptical,

I don't want to do the

superhero palace show.

All the other guys wanted to,

so I acquiesced in going along.

Well anyways, a few days ago,

I emailed all of them,

listed all the reasons

why I don't think

we should do the

superhero palace show.

So I'm glad I put my foot down

and I asserted myself.

- It made me feel

sad in a way that

you cockblocking

my creativity did

'cause it made me

have to watch myself.

- Don't say that.

That's a mean thing to say.

- I know,

and I don't know

how else to say it,

because it made me

feel really bad!

'Cause I was like...

- Well you know what?

A lot of the times,

the things you say make

me feel really bad.

For instance, when

we're together

and you just in a

monotone voice say,

"That's stupid," or,

"that's not a good joke."

When it's just

totally not necessary.

You do this all the time, so...

- That's stupid!

- Because I gave

very valid reason...

- If you guys want,

we can make this

like our White Album,

where you come up with

a bunch of sketches,

and I come up with the

superhero palace idea,

and you guys throw in contributions

as needed to either one,

and we come together,

and then we make a

full show that's like

two halves put together.

- Superhero palace and sketches?

- Yeah!

- I like this idea.

- Yeah, see if it's funny.

- Yeah, give it a whirl,

see where we stand.

- Ideally we would rehearse

all day Saturday, right?

- Yeah.

- Tomorrow at your house...

- I mean I need

to think about it.

- Okay, so I'll see you

fellas at New Michael's

at 2:
45 or something.

I'm excited to do this.

You were right.

We don't have enough time

to do a totally

new play and show.

And I hadn't thought about

how little time we

had to rehearse.

- Sometimes,

the difference between you

and some people, they...

- They're more humble.

I'm the humblest!

- And they

they think of a lot of things,

but don't necessarily think

that they're worth saying.

Oh man!

- Where is this going?

- It's yellow, so you

get a double Decker.

- I get an upper Decker.

Where is he?

Bye forever, I'll

see you tomorrow.

- Yeah.

- Love you.

- I think we worked it out.

We came to a good compromise.

And we'll see how things go.

It's not unusual for

Noah to say things

that kind of hurt my feelings,

but I get over them

pretty quickly,

'cause I know they're

not on purpose.

And we'll have a good

day tomorrow, so.

- I'm very tired.

I just worked a whole week

with a bunch of Aspie kids,

and now I'm gonna continue

to hang out with a

bunch of Aspie kids,

doing something that's

much more difficult.

Can I wake you up yet?

- No, but

Jack is running way late.

- I noticed, did

you talk to him?

Everybody, welcome

to improv 101,

because we want you

to improve yourself

101 percent!

- You can't spell

improve without improv!

- Oh, that's great!

- Who summons the bee keeper?

- Funny!

And the rabbi interrupts him,

and says, "Sorry

to cut you off!"

- Oh no!

- See what you did?

And what do you think,

how should the razor

blade sketch end?

They're cutting

themselves with razors.

God, I wish there were

a less painful way

to test razor blades!

This is really funny,

who wrote this?

You by yourself, New Michael?

- Yeah.

- It's really good.

- I wrote it way back in March.

- Okay, so...

- And remember what

happens in March...

- Stays in March!

- I'll go get another

one from the truck!

- No, no, no.

No, no, no.

You say, "What, already?"

- fart?

- I don't think so.

- I didn't.

- Yeah, I did.

- That's why we got rid of you.

- You know one thing about,

my least favorite

thing about you guys

is that you smell

and you sneeze and cough.

- Yeah, like

you smell any better.

- And fart all over my room.

But with all you

guys here together,

it makes it, I can't

even be in this room,

it smells so bad afterwards, so.

- I mean, we all do it!

You do it in my house, too.

All right, you wanna do one

of these sketches, New Michael

somewhere?

Or do you wanna sit

here and smell things

that you don't want to smell?

- I don't, no, I...

- Well we're

not, we're almost...

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